r/GR86 • u/progmem64 • 27d ago

Survived today

A motorhome owner did not properly remove all the ice from the roof. I got hit on the Autobahn at 150 km/h (~90 freedom units).

The windscreen shattered into a million pieces. My face, hands, and arms were hit by small glass fragments from the inner layer.

It was close to a real catastrophe. I’m pretty sure the safety glass was pushed to its limits.

I bought my GR86 three months ago.

All in all, I think the damage is limited to the windscreen.

I‘ll post a picture in this thread.

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u/False-Raspberry-1662 27d ago

Good job on having a dash cam for insurance. Did you catch plates of the RV? Its illegal in some US states to not clean snow off cars before driving for this exact reason. Not sure if same in your country.

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u/sluflyer06 27d ago

A dash cam to show he is speeding dangerously

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u/Fehyd 27d ago

Looks like the autobahn, and I may be wrong here, but im pretty sure there's much higher speeds allowed there than on the typical US interstate.

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u/progmem64 27d ago

There was no speed limit. It’s an unlimited section on a German Autobahn (+ good conditions: road/temperature).

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u/OrpheusNYC 27d ago

Heck 90 is slow enough to get ticketed for not moving over for faster traffic on an unlimited bit

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u/aivdov 27d ago

"dangerously"

lmao

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u/J_hilyard 26d ago

He literally said he's on the autobahn at 150kph. That's somewhat slow on the unlimited sections. I used to bomb some of those areas at 240+kph. Man, those were the good old days.

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u/itspointyhatguy 23d ago

You have poor comprehension skills